How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill: Excerpt

by James Patterson

This free excerpt contains the first 15 chapters.

Read the first 15 CHAPTERS from the fourth book in the massively popular Middle School series!
Be prepared for an unforgettable summer of hi-jinks, new friends, and surprises, all told with the hilarity and honesty readers have come to expect from blockbuster author James Patterson.

Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp--until he finds out it's a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger-Eater, who puts up with endless teasing from the other kids. Rafe soon realizes there's more to a person than a nickname, though, and Booger-Eater might be the kind of friend you want on your side when the boys from the Cool Cabin attack.

Genres: Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

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James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time and the creator of such unforgettable characters and series as Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton, as well as collaborated on #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich. Patterson has told the story of his own life in the #1 bestselling autobiography James Patterson by James Patterson. He is the recipient of an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

[Sophia Ewing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book.

[Skyla · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was really good. It was about Jamie Grimm going to a summer camp... all things go wrong. Until he makes it right! There were bullies, broccoli, and then there comes snake hill. Let me just say... he has a weird imagination .-.

[Arul Prakash · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this is a great book because it teaches kids how to deal with bullies. That is awesome because I strongly feel like bullies are a humongous problem in our society. Almost every kid in this world has encountered with a bully and probably in a bad way. That's no good and I feel like we as a community should do something about this. James Patterson does this and this shows to the world how bullying should be stopped. He conveys this in a funny way so that smaller kids would understand about bullying and stand up to it. Therefore, this is a great book and I would recommend this to kids all over the world.

[Felix Raeber · Rating 4 out of 5]

I rated this book "Middle school: How I Survived, Broccoli, and snake Hill" five stars because there is a person named Rafe and he is a bad kid in school, so that is why he went to Camp Wannamorra. At that place there are other kids that got sent from their school because they were bad too. The camp is really strict, so if you don't follow the rules you get sent home.

I would recommend this book to people who like adventure books because Rafe has a good and bad experience in the camp, like one time the food was so bad one kid in his group threw up. There is a guy and he is mysterious. No one knows where he came from or his life. This book is funny and also entertaining.

[Dylan Collier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rafe the main character has to go to summer camp/summer school and he has to deal with the bullies such as Doolin and he has to figure out a way to get them back and stop calling Norman a booger eater.

[Edsd · Rating 5 out of 5]

needs porn

[RFORD · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the book “How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli and Snake Hill” By James Patterson the main character (Rafe Khatchadorian) is going to summer school at a campground for the first time. The camp is called Mannamorra, it is a camp surrounded by the forest and has a lake right next to it and they also split up the camp so there is a boys side and a girls side. The main character is put in a beaten old cabin with a lot of losers and the other cabins have a bunch of bullies in them. Throughout the whole book he and his new friends are getting bullied and pranked.
The most interesting scene in the story is when Rafe is being investigated and the man in charge is spitting and yelling at him. This is very intriguing because the man is being a jerk to Rafe and then the man scares him out of his office. It also makes the reader laugh a little because Rafe is so scared of this man. The year before the man had no trouble with anyone but when Rafe showed up and started having trouble the man blamed him.
Overall I would give this a 4.5 star rating because it was a great book but I was expecting a bigger ending than it had. I would recommend this book to a classmate, it is an easy read and it is very funny. I think that immature people would like this book, it is amusing and I feel like someone extra mature would think its boring and not very funny.

[Jose · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book by reading the back of the book and thinking that the book will be good to read. The setting of the book is at a camp for the main character. The big ideas was that the main character and his camp buddies were being bullied at camp. So the character named Rafe and his camp buddies are trying to get there revenge for the time Rafe an his Friends to get payback. He wants to make camp fun with no bullies to bully no more people to pick on .
The book was good and also I like Rafe standing up for him self and his friends. Also Rafe will not back down from a fight. The part i don't like is the bully bulling other people for no reason. He is trying to be the best on the camp.

[Rod McLellan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book about a kid that has to go to summer school (AKA Camp Wannamora) because he is falling behind in school. He ends up in the "Loser Cabin" and gets bullied. Read to find out why he's kicked out of camp!

[Olivia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Today I finished Middle School How Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill. I really enjoyed reading this book. I loved how in the end Rafe ended up helping a friend. Although he got in trouble, I am happy that he made new friends.

[Katelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read James Patterson's books in the past and I loved them. Even if I didn't experience the exact same form of middle school life that he did. But there was some similarities and the book was just as funny as it was when I had read it when I was younger💙

[Cassidy Jean Starkey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book amazing

[Noah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Words can't describe how good this book was.

[Rory · Rating 5 out of 5]

very spooky and changes secnes quick and awcaurdly

[Breandan Kerr · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was a good book and i don't like many books but i was interested in this one.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

:3 :) :0 yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol I dono :3

[Mary Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp--until he finds out it's a summer school camp!

[Onur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rafe is sent to summer camp he gets bullied by doolin and his friends he gets sent back home but he pulles a last prank on doolin

[Crystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is cool.

[Jaylin · Rating 4 out of 5]

That the boy he was getting bulled and then he saved the world by telling a speach.

[Ethan]

just finesed

[Marley Eccles · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the book for lots of different reasons but especially in the ending I think you would like it too

[Harold Walters · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fine.

[Nuqksh Sapra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anybody who is being bullied or even pranked should immediately complain to an adult, but I must admit that the way they fought back was very remarkable

[Richard C Grahn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun easy read.

This is a fun reminder of, youthful experiences long forgotten with names changed to protect, well, everyone. I only wish this were more than a sampling of the book.

[Unknown_rose_girl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a great book to read. It was very fun to read I would definitely recommend this book I specially if your are looking for a fun book to read.

[Archer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rafe Khatchadorian freut sich auf die Ferien und das Sommercamp. Doch dann der Hammer: statt Spaß, Sonnenbaden, Chillen, Abenteuer und was alles dazu gehört, kommt er in ein Camp, in dem vormittags Nachhilfe gegeben und Hausaufgaben gemacht werden. Er kommt auch noch in die "Loserhütte", zu den Bisamratten. Die coolen Typen sind bei den Rotluchsen. Diese halten sich für so cool, dass sie alle, die nicht bei drei auf dem Baum sind, mobben. Die Bisamratten werden beschimpft, ihnen wird ihr Zeug weggenommen und ihre Nachtruhe wird gestört. Anstatt etwas dagegen zu unternehmen, ist der Chef des Camps der Meinung, die Jungs müssten solche Sachen unter sich ausmachen.

Von der Idee her ist das Buch nicht schlecht. Ich mag ja Graphic Novels und Comics, und die Zeichnungen sind mehr als passend. Was ich nicht mochte, war Rafe selbst. Zumindest nicht sehr. Einerseits beschwert er sich, dass er gemobbt wird, andererseits hält er auch nicht viel von den meisten Menschen. Seine ehrgeizige Schwester wird gedanklich und verbal von ihm abgekanzelt, weil sie ehrgeizig ist, er selbst ist froh, dass er nicht der "Oberloser" ist, denn da gibt es noch ein Mobbingopfer, das noch mehr gequält wird als er. Auch der Witz war mehr als fragwürdig; meine Kindheit ist ja nicht gerade ewig her, aber über ewiges Kotzen, den Geruch von Scheiße oder Popelfressern habe ich nicht lachen können. Eigentlich hätte ich dem Buch sogar nur zwei Punkte gegeben, aber ich fand die Art, wie auf Mobbing hingewiesen wurde, dann doch recht gut. Als Reihe werde ich diese Bücher aber nicht mehr weiterverfolgen, da gibt es auf jeden Fall Besseres.

[Vit Arunkumar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this book is very interesting and a bit funny because it had wonderful stuff to make it amazing, I loved the part when he escapes the camp and I like books with break out. It's about I guy named Rafe Khatchadorian and telling about what happened in his life and tries to escape snake hill. How he survived Snake Hill, Bullies, and Broccoli (it's mentioned in the title up). James Patterson, this story is very good in my opinion and people, I recommend this book if your are looking for young adult fiction novel books. Why I rated 4 stars is because, I wanted it to go a bit more interesting. But this is marvelous.

[Jordan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, 'Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake hill', is about Rafe Katchadorian who going to Summer School Camp at Camp Wannamora with his sister. Rafe faces lots of problems and at the end he always finds his way out of it.

Rafe and his sister Georgia, both went to the same camp, but unlike Georgia, Rafe has to join the remedial part of camp. While Georgia joins the advanced camp.

One of Rafe's problem was the cantins food, which were worst than any food he ate at home, such as broccoli.
In this camp the students were separated into cabins. Rafe was put into the worst cabin, Muskrats, while the other cabins got cool names such as Bobcats and Sly Fox. Rafe didn't have any problems with his cabin and everyone inside it, but the other cabins hated them. They would give nicknames that are cruel to the Muskrats members and call them Dead Meat as they were eating.

Calling names out loud weren't all they did, they would bring an unfare fight to the Muskrats at day time. But at night before they sleep, they prank the Muskrats cabin with all sorts of stuff you never thought would end up in or on your bed.

Find out what Rafe and his Muskrats gang do as revenge in the book. Trust me this book really is great as an enlightment after a thick novel not to mention it's just like any James Patterson Middle School book series, it's hilarious.

[Bruce · Rating 5 out of 5]

MIDDLE SCHOOL; HOW I SURVIVED BULLIES, BROCCOLI, SNAKE HILL by James Patterson is about our main character Rafe who is sent to a camp that is mainly school for his summer, Rafe friends his cabin mates with all different kinds of personalities ranging from annoying to scary. Rafe may have good cabin mates but it’s the other kids at the camp that bother Rafe, kids from another cabin have tried to literally beat up Rafe before a camp counselor showed up and stopped them. Rafes main objective in the book is try to have a great summer and survive from all the bullies, food, and education.
I like the book if I could rate the book I’d give it five stars because I don’t see anything wrong with it; the book provides a good plot, a loveable character, romance, and it’s simple to read. I think if I had a favorite part in the book I’d choose the part where Rafe and his friends are approached by this cute teacher that they have a crush on named Katie Kim and she ask why they aren’t dancing but they can’t speak because their in shock that Katie Kim is right in front of them so Katie ask if any of them wants to dance and Rafe took his chance and once he was going to speak Rafes younger sister shows up and ask if his big brother would dance with him and Rafe says yes but Katie acknlodges Rafe for having a big heart.